Kirk Johnson and Ian Miller from the Denver Museum of Nature & Science were in-studio Wednesday and answering questions via social media. The result was “No. 1 in the country in terms of revenue raised per viewer,” the station reports, a distinctly public-TV way of rating success. And it did that well even on a stormy night interrupted by FCC-mandated warnings.

To avoid interruptions and keep the pledges coming, RMPBS will rerun the hour at 6 p.m. Sunday.

Joanne Ostrow has been watching TV since before "reality" required quotation marks. "Hill Street Blues" was life-changing. If Dickens, Twain or Agatha Christie were alive today, they'd be writing for television. And proud of it.